By Amanda Hernández, Stateline States can’t figure out what to do about cash bail. The...
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This L.A. Democrat is a ‘New Testament kind of guy’ — and one of California’s most powerful voices on criminal justice
By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters The man — tall and gaunt, slightly bedraggled, carrying a plastic...
Opinion: I have a form of PTSD that’s rarely talked about
My time spent in unsafe neighborhoods and unsafe prisons has taught me a secret: Most people in...
Can Cash Payments Improve the Health of Pregnant People and Children?
It was like money falling from the sky. Except the city of Los Angeles would be sending it to her...
Students Experiencing Homelessness Are Supposed to Get Extra Help. Here’s How California Can Do Better
On a sunny morning in March 2014, Yenni Rivera picked up her infant son and stepped outside her...
Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in California
by Emily Widra and Felicia Gomez of the Prison Policy Initiative One of the...
When ‘slow violence’ becomes ‘fast violence’ in an LA community besieged by industry and pollution
The Los Angeles community of Wilmington is home to the largest concentration of oil refineries in...
When Disability Intersects with Domestic Violence, Here’s How to Better Help Survivors
by Angela Kim I discovered I had a disability before I realized I was in an abusive...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US
People victimized by the police have demonstrated higher-than-usual rates of depression...
Op-Ed: Fatal Police Violence May Be Linked to Preterm Births in Nearby Neighborhoods & Communities
Californians who were pregnant when fatal police violence occurred in their neighborhoods saw...